WAR OF NERVES:
Chemical Warfare From World War I
to Al Qaeda.
By Jonathan B. Tucker.
Pantheon. 479 pp. $30
A GODLY HERO:
The Life of William Jennings Bryan.
By Michael Kazin.
Knopf. 374 pp. $30
Yasmine Bahrani on equal rights for American female Muslims
MUSSOLINI’S ITALY:
Life Under the
Fascist Dictatorship,
1915–1945.
By R. J. B. Bosworth.
Penguin Press.
692 pp. $35
BETTER FOR ALL THE WORLD:
The Secret History of Forced
Sterilization and
America’s Quest for
Racial Purity.
By Harry Bruinius.
Knopf. 401 pp. $30
James B. Twitchell on a man who sold America the goods
T. S. ELIOT: The Making of an American Poet, 1888-1922. By James E. Miller Jr. Pennsylvania State Univ. preG.468 pp. $39.95